Gabriel

"You're a fool if you thought I'd just roll over and die." Avery said angrily.

She snapped her fingers and the other guards phased through the walls and entered the room. They flanked me and Avery on both sides, preparing for a fight.

The other vampires laughed.
"These idiots won't be a threat. Magicians have reported their magic is fading. How long do you think your wonderfriends have before they get the dry spell?"

"Long enough to kill you," I spoke up, getting tired of listening to them.

Before their leader could turn in my direction, I felt a rush of wind and saw a couple of the vampires feet knocked back by a blur. I looked to my side and Avery was gone.

The midwest leader, Chris, screamed in anguish. His left arm had been completely ripped off at the elbow, the stump spewing blood I didn't think vampires had. I didn't see pain in his face, I only saw fury.

"THAT'S IT!" Chris screamed. "FIND HER! KILL THEM! MURDER EVERYONE IN THE BUILDING!"

With his good arm he pointed at me, the guards, and dramatically pointed at the floor.

"BURN THIS PLACE DOWN!"

A girl, taller than me, short hair and purple lip gloss had her nails digging into my scalp before he finished his sentence. Staring right into her bloodshot eyes I imagined her slamming my head through a wall before I heard a loud, eerie laughter. I thought it was one of the other midwest vampires but they froze too.

I looked past my captor and saw Chris had turned around. On the floor crouched down behind him was Avery, tearing the flesh off of his missing arm with her teeth. She paused to turn around, and laughed.

The moment I saw her face my heart stopped cold. My glamour was gone, and so was Avery's pretty face. Rotten, peeling and gray, it seemed the revenant disease had spread quickly after ingesting Chris's arm. It was clear her other skin had transformed as well. There was no turning back for her now.

"Burn this place down?" She repeated quickly, her breathing increasing.
"Burn this place down? Burnthisplacedown?Burnthisplacedown?! I HAD THE SAME IDEA!!" She snarled as leapt past him towards me.

She shoved her right hand through the girls throat, showering me with blood. Using the same hand to grab the girl's chin, she turned the girl towards Chris.

"Who's next?" Avery said, smiling evilly while pantomiming with the girl.

"Guards, you know what to do."

I watched as London slammed his have against the wall and uttered an incantation. The others did the same, placing their hands on the floor and walls. Within seconds, orange light trickled from the fingertips and the everything started to burn. Some of the guards teleported and began to burn the other floors.

"What the hell do you think your doing?!" Chris growled, confused. "You're not going to trap us here!"

He shouted something unintelligible to his crew and they all ran towards me and Avery.

"We still have a chance Gabriel." Avery said to me in a harsh whisper.

Her current appearance was hard to look at, but I had no choice.

"Get to Danielle's containment room. Finish brainwashing Allen. That's the only area the guards won't be burning but the whole building will collapse so you don't have a lot of time."

"What if Shaye stops me? What if I fail?"

"Don't."

She looked at the other vampires, hissed, and got ready for the attack.

Just as she was ready to pounce, all of othe vampires turned into a swarm of hundreds of loud, chittering bats, a gigantic black mass completely consuming Avery. I could hear her screams begin to muffle as the swarm attacked her from all sides. Across the room, the Midwest leader stood grinning at the bats, his half eaten arm in hand.

Then he turned his attention towards me.

I activated my eyes, getting ready to defend Avery and kill this bastard, when London put his hand on my shoulder.

"You fighting him is not part of the plan. Do what you set out to do."

His hand on my shoulder glowed while he motioned to the other guards. One of them struck the vampire leader when electricity, blasting him against the wall while the others through fireballs at the bats, causing them to scatter. This gave Avery enough time to break free from the swarm. She gave herself enough distance to gather some strength and begin attacking the swarm itself, ripping individual bats apart when her hands and teeth while the guards burned more.

"It's under control Gabriel. Go."

I took his advice and ran towards the door. It was going to be hard to keep the normal illusion of Avery together after seeing her like this, but I would have to try.

Shaye

"It's not my fault, I was still working with them at the time, I couldn't intervene. She's trying to make me out like a bad guy, but they've been controlling us all. I was forced to watch you! I was forced to slightly impact your decision with my powers. They would have killed me otherwise! I finally caved in after they took Danielle and made her into, into whatever she is now! "

I didn't care if that upset her or Allen. I had to get them to understand that this was part of the vampires plan.

I heard a loud crash nearby and I saw a secret entrance kicked open. I saw an orange light pouring in while smoke began to seep into the room.

I looked at the Gabriel illusion, who had gotten up and began staring at the door.

"What's going on?" I called at to him.
"What's burning out there?"

"Everything is, I'm afraid." said Gabriel's voice, but from a different direction. I turned towards the door again and see the real Gabriel standing at the door. His clothes don't appear to be burned but he looks like he got mugged, his clothes all disheveled and blood streaming from his forehead. He's coughing heavily from the smoke. I tried to use my powers to see past this room but I couldn't. There must have been some barrier in place after all.

"Well, I'll be damned. I didn't even have a coporeal form and I still got my beat. Life sucks."

"You're damn right it does." snapped Allen.

"You're going to pay for this." I told Gabriel, activating my eyes and creating hovering balls of fire. He paid me no mind, and stared at Allen with a fierce intensity.

"Nothing my duplicate and Avery have said has been wrong, Allen. Sure, Shaye has been doing those things, but it's not his fault, the werewolves themselves are to blame."

Even I was confused by that. What was his endgame?

"What are you talking about?" Allen demanded.

"You should know." he replied. "Marissa and the other two are dangerous. Their bodies are infected and anyone too close to them will get turned into a beast. Not a werewolf, just a regular psychotic wolf. Why do you think you became a wolf man instead of a wolf?"

"That's completely different." said Allen. "I can control myself in that form. I wasn't mindless."

"That's because you were scratched by Marissa shortly after. If not, you would've been feral by the morning. I don't think you understand-"

A loud crash boomed above us, and the building shook. Even though Gabriel stopped talking, he paid no more attention to the chaos.

His eyes lit up and sparked, and he raised his hand towards Allen.

"Just let me show you..."

"ALLEN NO!" I shouted.

I was too late. Allen was being mesmerized by Gabriel, and the other werewolves were fighting illusions of dead bodies. Suddenly, I saw Danielle running towards Gabriel, but I knew that wouldn't work well. Gabriel looked at her once and she collapsed on the floor.

"This is too much work," he muttered, and the Avery illusion disappeared.

"Allen look into the past, and see everything. From my mind, not yours. See the truth."

Allen's face drooped while being mesmerized and he fell to his knees, holding his arms out like he was carrying something.
I couldn't stand by and let him get corrupted. I had to see what they saw. Activating my eyes, I sent spheres of light circling around them. Gabriel noticed and smiled. He looked at me, his eyes flaming purple and red.

"You want to see that bad? Go ahead."

Gabriel sent spheres of light from his own eyes and they came at me like bullets. I couldn't run, think or blink before they flew into my eyes and burned my skull. I fell to my knees rubbing my eyes, crying and screaming at the same time.

"I kill you!" I screamed. "Wait till I get out of this, I'm gonna burn every inch of your... your..." I paused.

My eyes still burned, but my voice... Slowly, while I was talking I stopped sounding like me and I sounded like... I sounded like...

"You see Allen, this is what they did to you. To your friends. They've ruined all of you.

I opened my eyes and in my arms was a gigantic dead dog. It smelled like rain and it was still warm. I wanted to get that huge animal out of my lap but I had no control of my arms. Activating my eyes, I scanned the animal and saw that it was actually Allen's dead friend, Jacob. My arms trembling and I realized I wasn't in my own body. I was coinhabiting Allen's.

"That's not all they've done." Gabriel's voice spoke from everywhere. They visited Danielle's house while trying to find you. Just look at the result. Our surroundings changed, but Jacob's wolf corpse stayed in Allen's arms. Suddenly, we were sitting on floor in Danielle's living room, and there was blood all across the floor. Allen jumped as a dark creature appeared behind him and licked his ear.

The beast had silky black hair, shinier than any I'd ever seen on a werewolf. I was shocked to see the wolf had normal human eyes besides a faint green glow.

"Follow it." Gabriel taunted Allen. "It... Or should I say she, wants to show you something."

Allen finally let go of his friend and follow that large animal into the hallway, were he saw pictures of Danielle and her family on the walls.
Then he noticed the blood that stained the doors of each room.

"NO!" he screamed. He punched the wall and knocked down a few pictures and a small mirror. Allen tried to run down the hall to the rooms but there was a barrier stopping him.

"Let me go! Let me go! Damn it!" He screamed, wiping tears from his eyes.

The big dog picked up the mirror and was trying to give it to Allen, but Allen pushed the dog back. Then the dog walked past him, as if the barrier was never there, and held the mirror in it's mouth, growling menacingly. Allen reached his hand out towards the dog, and this time, there was no barrier. He took one step forward to test the barrier before walking normally and crouching in front of the dog. It was so huge it blocked Allen's path, so he had no choice but to see what it wanted to show him. He took the mirror from the dog's mouth and looked at it, but saw nothing.

"What was the point of this?" He asked angrily.

The dog barked and held out a paw. Slowly, Allen began to hand it back when he saw something. He angled it a certain way and he didn't see the reflection of a big burly dog.  He saw the reflection of young looking hispanic woman, eyes dark empty sockets, tears coming down her face.

He dropped the mirror in shock.

"Mrs... Valdivia?" The dog let out a sorrowful moan and walked into the room on it's right.

Allen peered inside and saw Mrs. Valdivia's husband and their younger daughter, torn apart on the floor in two pools of blood.

And everything went black.